tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 26 17:57:57 1997
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Re: KLBC: to be or not to be
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: to be or not to be
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:57:47 -0700
At 22:21 97-09-25 -0700, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
}ja' muHwI':
}>{vutwI' 'oH vutbogh loD'e'} (A cook is a man that cooks.)
}>Is that correct?
}
}The way I interpret pronouns-as-"to be"-verbs, your translation is
}backwards. {X 'oH Y'e'} doesn't mean the same as {Y 'oH X'e'}. It's
}the same sort of distinction between "a square is a rectangle" (true)
}and "a rectangle is a square" (false).
It *is* backwards. Marc refers to the subject of the sentence as having
{-'e'} on it. Beats me why I only pointed this out on one of the sentences
and accepted the others.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian